Bath Crasher by dwemthy

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made by dwemthy for LD 41 (COMPO)

Title.png Elephants like baths and birds hate sharing!

Fight your way to the bird bath and smash it to win

Use A and D to steer, S to slow down and Space to charge

Elephant tusks are only good against buildings, birds are untouchable by them

The turrets can only shoot at the birds, although the explosion from bombs can hurt buildings too.

Collect dust by destroying buildings and birds. Use dust to upgrade your elephant or turrets.

'Turrets' include: Archer Bomber Robot and Wizard

Start with space for one turret, add more with the '+' icon on the bottom row. Build a turret with the '+' icon on the right side.

Two incompatible genres combined are: vehicular combat and tower defense, as well as turrets from an assortment of genres

If you're having trouble getting very far take it slow, gather lots of dust and upgrade before you destroy any bird houses. Wizards are over-powered.

Fixed the bug with Chrome

Known bugs:

Can somehow spend into negative dust in some situation

Ratings

Overall 590th 2.944⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 462th 3.083⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 378th 3.306⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 496th 3.25⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 559th 2.694⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 472th 2.778⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

kingdork
23. Apr 2018 · 01:44 UTC
If I were a bird I'd take a bath with that elephant.
BitJester Media
23. Apr 2018 · 20:38 UTC
ERROR: ​The game keeps pausing for some reason, to the point where I can't even play between the menu popping up


SOLUTION: Play in Firefox
Aaron Nemoyten
23. Apr 2018 · 20:42 UTC
I'm not sure what's going on here but I'm playing the HTML5 version and the game keeps pausing?

edit: Oh, there's a note about this. Whoops.

The Windows version just wouldn't open for me... there's probably some troubleshooting I would need to do because I'm running Bootcamp.

I like the concept. I actually explored the idea of a racing/TD hybrid as my LD entry this year and you pulled off something I thought would take me too long to do :) - that includes the "left hand steers, right hand manages the TD aspects" big. The elephant/birds concept is super weird but I like that you're like "Hey, I'll just throw in a bunch of crazy ideas!" That's what LD is for!
🎤 dwemthy
23. Apr 2018 · 20:53 UTC
@BitJester-Media & @aaron-nemoyten What browser are you using?
BitJester Media
23. Apr 2018 · 21:15 UTC
@dwemthy I had the pausing glitch on Chrome.
On MS Edge, the game wouldn't load.
Works fine on Firefox!
Aaron Nemoyten
23. Apr 2018 · 21:15 UTC
Chrome.
🎤 dwemthy
23. Apr 2018 · 21:19 UTC
Thanks @BitJester-Media and @Aaron-Nemoyten for the feedback. Looks like Firefox might be the best option. I'll have to test the windows build again myself.
AdroitConceptions
23. Apr 2018 · 21:31 UTC
web version kept pausing on me uncontrollably
joemid
24. Apr 2018 · 04:17 UTC
Awesome. Works fine on Firefox. Love the "Turrets"- hate the birds. Especially with the "death screen"- hate those birds. Great job- you packed a lot into this game!
chainedlupine
27. Apr 2018 · 09:47 UTC
Neat idea for a game! Took me a short bit to get what was going on, but once I did, I found it fun!
Haberworks
29. Apr 2018 · 23:36 UTC
i never knew how badly i wanted to smash bird houses and bird baths as an elephant until today! driving around turrets to wreck stuff is a fun idea
Balance686
29. Apr 2018 · 23:53 UTC
Nice genre mashup! I had no issues playing in Firefox. I like the various turrets and upgrades you can do. Also the palette suited the game nicely. I experienced an issue where I could no longer buy hp (after buying many times) not sure if there's an intentional limit or not. Good submission!
vfqd
30. Apr 2018 · 13:49 UTC
That was an awesome game :grin: it took me a while to figure out but the super wizard was awesome! I would really have enjoyed some visual feedback with sounds and animations and I think you should have been able to restore HP more than 3 times. Really fun though, thanks
AwesomeAlliterationAlliance
02. May 2018 · 21:01 UTC
That is a really nice game. Had a ton of fun. The rotationspeed could be a little bit higher, but i made it to the end nonetheless. The balancing was also quite nice. I had just 5% health left when i hit the fountain. Very nice Job!
lautregars
02. May 2018 · 23:11 UTC
Incredibable graphs, and fun game.